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On 5/4/2014 3:20 AM, Thomas Jericke
wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: "Mike Nelson" <mikestar1313@gmail.com>
To: "Lua mailing list" <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
Date: 04-05-2014 01:22
Subject: Re: number, math, and metatable? [RANT]
On 5/3/2014 11:31 AM, Tim Hill
wrote:
local
limtied = max(min(input, 1000), 100))
->
local
limtied = input : min(1000) : max(100)
Well, I for one would consider that a Con argument, not
a Pro. I think most developers regardless of background
could read the first example easily. The second would
involve considerably more thought. So why is the second
form better?
-Tim
Tim, Tim,
You just don't get it--Thomas is trying to turn Lua into
Smalltalk, I've tried to turn Lua into Ruby (mostly off list,
missed so many opportunities to pester the list!), other
individuals have tried to turn Lua into Python, Lisp, Haskell,
etc. I may have overlooked some examples.
I don't want to turn Lua into anything, I haven't even made a
"[proposal]" yet.
I don't even know Smalltalk BTW, but I have some bad news for
you,
local limited = input : min(1000) : max(100)
is absolutely legal Lua code (consider input to be a table with
functions min and max as fields).
--
Thomas
Thomas,
I was really angry about the trend in general in recent posts,
but I shouldn't have singled you out and attributed motivations to
you which were not apparent in your writing. I sincerely apologize.
-- Mike
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